morale. One of the reasons that Dieppe failed so miserably is that their leadership, Louis Mountbatten in particular, planned very poorly for the operation. Firstly, the attack failed to use strategies that had proved to be extremely effective, and that should have been logical. The attack took place in daylight, which was a product of the Allies woefully underestimating the German opposition. Mountbatten was quoted to calling Dieppe “a piece of cake” proving how aloof he was to the strength
than sheer courage. In nine hours of carnage and horror ‘Jubilee’ became a disaster. The plan for a raid on the port of Dieppe originated at Combined Operations Headquarters, London, in April 1942, the month, by Churchill’s direction, Lord Louis Mountbatten was given the title of Chief of Combined Operations. The German armies had plunged deeper into the Soviet union, and Russian losses were appalling; Stalin began exhorting Churchill to open a second front at the earliest possible moment and